TAKEN BY THE DRAGON KING

CHAPTER SIXTY THREE

MIRANDA

My hands shook with fears and madness, I couldn’t move, a golden framework of spells netted me down, with the last of his life force Taisfet had cast two spells, One to send the wretched traitor Elena away and the other to tie me down to this damned place. Several days seemed to have passed by and the only sustenance I could get was from feeding Chaos into my body.

The tree had wilted and crumbled around me and the last days of Order were wilting away, fading off and with each passing second Taisfet’s spell waned off and I drowned in Chaos magic, my pale skin and blackened hands and pale almost white skin were proof of it’s infestation, as I fed off it, the veins blackened and my thoughts loosened.

“Yes child!” Chaos Howled with glee “Embrace it! embrace the darkness, together we’ll corrupt this mad world!”

The golden binds flickered, I sneered at Taisfet’s decomposing form, If only he’d just helped, things wouldn’t have come to this, maybe Chaos was right, maybe this world was mad and should go to shit, there was burst of energy, an intense feeding of chaotic energy with a shrill roar I strained against my bonds.

SNAP!!

The wind seemed to stop as did everything else, almost as if the world around had been put into mourning, I arose just as the rest of the tree crumpled into dust around me leaving me in the harsh light of the sun.

“Finally,” I groaned in dual voices, Chaotic energy whistling inside of me, fuelling me and my newfound madness “Freedom at last!”

I moved majestically across the last remnants of order the flowers wilting and turning to ash in my very presence.

“So,” Chaos sneers in my head “You choose to walk in my path, am I no longer a mad god, do you not fear any longer?”

“You’re mad,” I reply immersed in my power “but I realize that I am also mad, and maybe you might just be the only one who understands that.”

“Very well then, shall we begin to destroy this wretched thorn in my flesh, I have tolerated this world long enough.” It sheets in my head “But first let us announce my return.”

The words filled my head accompanied by the surge of power to perform it, in duality I assumed the stance and began to chant.

“Gorrizko kateak zeruan erretzen dira, guztien heriotza iragartzen dute, ez da bizitza miserablerik izango.” I howl with glee.

Red mist flowed from my fingertips, staining the whitened clouds and spreading like the malevolent disease inside of me carrying the stench of death and destruction, it spread out blotting out the sun and cover the world as far as the eyes can see in the an ominous red.

“There is much to do,” He urged “Our enemies will put up a fight, a fruitless and purposeless fight but an entertainment nonetheless, come let us prepare.”

“Where are we going?” I ask as a door of infinite blackness opened up in front of me.

“Our Kingdom of course” He said almost too gleefully as I stepped through.

†††

I walk over the bodies strewn across the floor, I had real power now, there was simply no need for me to hide my appearance under the traitor’s father’s face, of course there was some resistance hence the bodies, but such limited minds could not fathom my power, their simple minds couldn’t process it, better they die now than later.

“Mistress” Freya runs towards me bowing, although I notice the glimpse of fear in her eyes just as she gets to her knees “welcome back to the kingdom, but your glam-, glam-”

“Don’t stutter Freya” I say rolling my eyes “It is not a good look for one who calls herself my second in command”

“Yes mistress.” She says still on her kneeling position.

“I have traded myself for a higher power” I say in my dual voices “Rise Freya and gaze upon the form of Chaos rebirthed.”

She flinched at my words but nevertheless less she rose, and met me squarely in the eyes and gazing into them, she gulped and a lone teardrop traced it’s way down her chin.

“You’re different.” She says hoarsely “I do not see my mistress in your eyes where is your humanity Miranda?”

“I have been purged!” I growl at her, lifting her up by her throat “I have been purged of all my weak attributes, gone is the human representation of witch and God, and I will purge this world of It’s sin, tell me Freya will you serve?”

“Miranda.” She choked out my name “Mistress please.”

“Will you serve?!” I growl “Answer me!”

The tears flower freely from her eyes and despite my grip her head shook no In that moment something seemed to break in me, Freya had been one of the very first recruits, we’d grown together, what was I doing? How could I? What was I?

It seemed to be the only pure thought that worked it’s way into my head my hands trembled slightly and Chaos’s voice filtered into my head.

“Why do you hesitate my avatar?” His voice slithers “This is what you want, it is what we want. ”

It was like my mind was at war between myself and the stronghold of Chaos’s madness, a searing pain that threatened to split my skull wound it’s way through my body followed by a terrible weakness that caused me to drop the increasingly heavy Freya.

“Mistress?” Freya called my name unsure of what was going on “Mistress!”

With a deafening roar I seized albeit temporary control of my body and a portal bloomed from my fingertips, my control was strained as it was and I could barely get the words to escape my lips.

“Go Go!”

My body shook with betrayal and yet I felt something bud up in me, something to quell the madness I’d been experiencing, a light in this darkness it was a part of my humanity. Freya cast me one last long look before stepping through.

“Nooooo!” Chaos wailed in my head it’s fury washing it’s control back into me “All I have wanted to give you was freedom! you could have had everything you’ve ever wanted, all I ask is your cooperation, I put you in the control seat for too long too long!”

It’s like the first time but only more intense a dark searing pain wafts through my entire body, this is worse than death, struggling I crumple to the ground wheezing and groaning, gritting my teeth as Chaos forcefully pushes me back into the recesses of my mind into the dark empty blank space.

“Stay there” His voice comes through the space “you’ve have bungled up too much of our plans alongside your worthless intangible life, this time I’m in control!”

Low sobs escape my lips as the darkness descends over me, it’s a choking embrace and I cannot get away from it, I give in because it’s not in my power any more.

“Anyone” I say to the darkness in tears “Please anyone stop this, stop this madness before it’s too late!”

*****

CHAOS

I tested my new body and it’s permanence, A load of spells escaping my fingertips wordless, Finally I’ll be able to exert the justice on this world, on this splinter in my side, this intense cacophony of noise, In just a few rises of this measly ball of light, I’d eradicate this damned planet and all other sense of sentience and life within me, I’d be whole and silent again, but first a visit to an ‘old hag’ who tried to put a stick in my plans.

As I descended down the steps I could hear the faint pitter patter as moisture dripped from the ceiling of the cavernous dungeon, she laid huddled her back against me, as I drew closer I heard her chant strange words even to me.

“I have expected you” She says simply “Is’feti!”

I recoil at the mention of my name, the original name given to me by an entity whom I only knew as the creator.

“How do you know that?” I growl the effect of the word washing over me “how can you know-?”

“I knew it was slim for her to escape your clutches very slim” she says “I have a knowledge that puts you at a disadvantage, you cannot harm me Is’feti I have mastered the secrets of the universe, I hold up a temporary barrier against you!”

“Fine” I snarl at her, unhinging my jaw far more than I should be able to with this body and through the looking glass of this host’s mind I hear her whimper slightly as dark energy pours from deep withing me solidifying into a scythe “what you can do can only delay the inevitable, death and darkness will descend, for now I will partake In your wars and slay and kill everyone you love slowly and painfully”

I extend a fragment of my power into her and slowly her fingers twitched followed by the entirety of her body I watch gleefully as the spell is perfected, my newly crafted puppet is ready.

“I may not be able to kill you,” I tell her “but when I’m done with you, you will wish for death.”

I turn and she follows obediently, There is much destruction at hand, much fun to be had.